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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books

@greatworm.ca

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Great Worm specializes in selling well-written zines, books by zinesters, with a focus on first-person narratives (perzines). Secondary focus on selling books about the Kurdish freedom struggle. Operating since 1999, for over 25 years!

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

I'm sorry you had to go through that. :(

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

Had you migrated over to Dreamwidth? Some of us are still there...

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

Subsistence farming? Not pretentious!!

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, maybe that was one too many litters of kittens.

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

Yeah, websites got replaced by platforms... My original distro's website/catalogue was all coded by hand too. I have long retired it, and when I come back, even though I'm a fullstack web developer, I'm probably going to use a platform first to get going...

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

"Can I still use my old account after I migrate?

Sorry, no. After you migrate, your old account will generally be either disabled or fully managed by Bridgy Fed. You won't be able to log into it and use it directly yourself. "

Why does it work that way? It seems like an obstacle to adoption...

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 7d

This is so awful. Star Fruit Books was such an exciting project, I have a small collection of their published works. Matt was such a great guy. Rest in peace.

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 8d

A personal remembrance of Matt Haasch.

www.tcj.com/remembering-...

Remembering Star Fruit Books publisher Matt Haasch, 1990-2025 - The Comics Journal

Zack Davisson pays homage to the late Haasch, who died of cancer on Sept. 6.

www.tcj.com

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

I met a "retired" zinester at a Palestine action recently (they hadn't made a zine in 30+ years) and they were so thrilled to learn that people were still into zines that they made a phenomenal old school Israel/Palestine collage zine for my distro in about a week :)

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

And of course there were great comics as well, so it's not like we were not going to have some. But there's more than I'd like. 8)

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 2d

The internet has given many writers an easier medium to spread their work... I was recently on a panel that reviewed 210 applications for 60 tables at a fair, and even though we explicitly had a "text-first" mandate, there was not enough decent applicants to make it a text-only fair.

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Alex @kett.club · 7d

*sort de son trou* je vais faire un zine

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 8d

Oh yeah! I'll DM you.

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 9d

New developer guide zine by Julia Evans!

Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 14d

stty

wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

your TTY driver has configuration

you can see how it’s configured by running:

stty -a

for example it print out the current window size!
Ctrl+S

by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default)

###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u”

stty intr u

this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though
programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features

developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program!

other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page)
the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings”

for the gnarly details:

man termios

but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver
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smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!

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Kawai 加鬼 Shen 👻 @kawaishen.bsky.social · 11d

Reading this in conjunction with Liz Pelly's Mood Machine and Will Tavlin's Casual Viewing n+1 article, gives a broader view of how pervasive cultural rot has become... Support indie artists, small press, booksellers, critics, zine fairs <3

Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 10d

whhaaaaattt that shop was legendary!

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 10d

(99+) Quite simply one of the most beautiful zine fair posters I've ever come across (designed by Indonesian artist Dimas Alfiandi) -... – @fanzines sur Tumblr www.tumblr.com/fanzines/730...

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💬 0 🔁 22 ❤️ 63 · Quite simply one of the most beautiful zine fair posters I've ever come across (designed by Indonesian artist Dimas Alfiandi) - Malang Zine Fair took place in Malang, Indonesia i…

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 10d

That keffiyeh almost gave Tara a heart attack!! :P

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 10d

When you sit down to read a paper book, either put your phone in airplane mode, or plug your phone in across the room so you’re not tempted to reach for it

Consider getting a paper dictionary, so [...] you don’t have to pull out your phone to look up words »
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How to read like an artist

10 tips for a better life with books

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 10d

This is good advice:

« A big part of reading is visiting other worlds, and you can’t visit another world if you’re constantly distracted by this one.

If you’re going to read on your phone or e-reader, switch it to airplane mode so you’re not even tempted to go online
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"3. Turn on Airplane mode" written in felt marker.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 10d

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 10d

In French we would call that a project "de longue haleine", done in a really long breath! We've been holding it in for so long!! 8)

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 11d

Amazon shut down ALL SEVEN warehouse sites in Québec when one of them won certification...

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 11d

God. Damn.

Alexis Johnson @alexisjohnsonart.bsky.social · 11d

My Amphibian Man is done! Just gotta wait a little longer for him to dry completely before I put him back in the hoop. My favorite part is the soak. Somehow, embroidery looks so good in cloudy water #theshapeofwater @realgdt.bsky.social

Completed embroidery of the Amphibian Man from The Shape of Water. He is still in his hoop with the stabilizer attached

Embroidery removed from hoop and soaking in soapy water. The water looks foggy and murky, obscuring the darker details of the embroidery

Embroidery laid flat and drying outside of the hoop

Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 11d

Oh I was just correcting myself, I thought that ABC was already back and said that the fair was happening there :)

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Nate Query @natemusic.bsky.social · 21d

Folding up these little zines to hand out in my neighborhood. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social for making these. ICE has been kidnapping my neighbors in North Portland.

How to report ICE and keep our neighbors safe

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